oxymoron

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by oxymoron 16d ago
Ludvig Strigeus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludvig_Strigeus?wprov=sfti1 wrote the original client, and fast, lean, native clients was his modus operandi. OpenTTD and uTorrent were both built the same way. I’ve been
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by oxymoron 11mo ago
Yes, but that wasn’t engineers.
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by oxymoron 11mo ago
I’m an AWS engineer and I haven’t seen any evidence of engineering layoffs within AWS since early this year. As others have suggested we generally don’t have ”DevOps Workers” either. There’s definitely a push for AI tools, but there’s no in
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by oxymoron 1y ago
Because a lot of the time, not everyone is impacted, as the systems are designed to contain the "blast radius" of failures using techniques such as cellular architecture and [shuffle sharding]( https://aws.amazon.com&#x2
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by oxymoron 2y ago
Countering advanced bits is a game of economics. Sure, we know that they can solve the captchas, but they usually can’t do so for free. Eg. Typical captcha solver services are around $1/thousand solved. Depending on the unit economics
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by oxymoron 2y ago
It was of course co-discovered by another woman, Lise Meitner, who understood the theory while taking a walk with Otto Frisch and discussing the experimental findings by Otto Hahn. Meitner and Frisch were friends with Hahn and learned about
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by oxymoron 3y ago
I think it’s at least relevant to note that a lot of things relating to autism was completely redefined in DSM-V. DSM-IV had many different diagnosis such as classic autism, autism spectrum disorder, aspergers and PDD-NOS (Pervasive Develop
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by oxymoron 3y ago
Redis latency is around 1ms including network round trip for most operations. In a single threaded context, waiting on that would limit you to around 1000 operations per second. Redis clients improve throughput by doing pipelining, so a bun
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by oxymoron 4y ago
I think our understanding of the inner structure of the earth is another interesting example of something that we’ve deduced scientifically but never directly observed. It surprised me a bit when I first realized that the Earth’s crust had
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by oxymoron 4y ago
There is a talk by the S3 VP on Youtube which mentions some rough numbers, I think it’s from re:invent 2019. Also, they mention 100 trillion objects here https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-s3s-15th-birthday-it
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by oxymoron 4y ago
When I started working for AWS as an SDE, I was hoping it’d be possible to visit a datacenter. I was surprised to find out that I’d require L11 (!) approval to so so! The only L11 in my reporting chain is Adam Selipsky. I’m told the AWS dat
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by oxymoron 4y ago
I’ve been using self-hosted TTRSS since Google Reader shut down.
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by oxymoron 4y ago
He is mentioned in the book, _The Man from the Future_, which gives the impression that Von Neumann did the heavy lifting their collaboration. It paints a relatively unflattering picture of Morgenstern.
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by oxymoron 4y ago
I am not convinced that AA is actively trying to block this app. I used to work for a major anti-bot vendor, so from that I know that all airlines suffer heavily from price scraping and try to protect their flight search endpoints. The impa
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by oxymoron 4y ago
Aside from the coolness of the actual thing, I love the early 00’s web site design. For a while, all sites looked like this.
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by oxymoron 5y ago
I also agree with this sentiment, although there are some examples of really weird meta programming that remains opaque to me. For instance, I’m able to use `warp` as a framework, but the use of things like type level peano arithmetic is mo
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by oxymoron 5y ago
I absolutely adore the Baroque Cycle. Question: Since I read it I’ve wanted to read more about the development of money and financial institutions, but I’ve had difficulty finding good books on the topic. Does anyone have any good recommend
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by oxymoron 5y ago
Building a UI is usually tedious irregardless of stack. The fun part is what’s new and creative in the project, which is usually a small part of the overall thing. My solution is generally to work at many different things in parallell, but
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by oxymoron 5y ago
I haven’t seen it explicitly banned, but the Operational Readiness templates does have a question about that which has to be answered for all product and feature launches. I guess some orgs may just have banned it outright though.
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by oxymoron 5y ago
Different customers have different attitudes towards this. Some of them are _very_ focused on conversion and will disable anything which causes additional user friction. For others, the economic damage of bots is just so painful that it mak
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by oxymoron 5y ago
Thanks for the clarification! I probably misremember some of the details.
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by oxymoron 5y ago
Yeah, there’s a central service that all Flight search is connected to, irregardless of airline. The airlines are charged per search to that api, so they monitor their ”look to book” rationvery closely. That ratio remains quite stable im th
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by oxymoron 5y ago
Yeah, I used to work for one of the major anti-bot vendors. Customers weren't clueless. Nobody buys these solutions because they're so much fun, it's a cost center and they monitor their ROI quite closely. Credit card charge
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by oxymoron 5y ago
Tenets as used internally at AWS are a set of principles that each team decides for themselves, as guides in the face of ambiguity. There's no overarching set of tenets (that I'm aware of), so this is probably just referring to th
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by oxymoron 5y ago
I’m sure there’s machinery in use which is powered by fossil fueles. You did mention separately that the mining industry is a heavy user of electricity, though, so I was referring to that aspect in particular. Apologies for not making that
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by oxymoron 5y ago
Swedish electricity production is essentially carbon neutral. There’s a 50/50 split between nuclear and renewables. At times, there’s imports from the European grid, which does include coal and gas &c, so by that accounting it may
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by oxymoron 5y ago
That seems unlikely. Plenty of electronics engineers working in Verilog, who haven’t ever glanced at Javascript.
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by oxymoron 5y ago
I like the argument that Taleb makes in _Fooled by randomness_, which is essentially that most news has negative informative value because most of it is just noise. Only with time does the signal appear.
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by oxymoron 6y ago
Haha. This is halfway between psychedelic and hyper realistic in a way that made me think of Thomas Pynchon.
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by oxymoron 6y ago
That’s the one! Thank you!

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